Crew Rowing on the C-54 Canal in Fellsmere

Images from crew rowing on the C-54 canal in Fellsmere on Saturday July 13, 2013.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Indian River Rowing Club members April Modrzakowski (front), of Vero Beach, and Bob Snyder, of Fellsmere, row their skull boat along the C-54 canal after launching from the boat dock by Sebastian River High School's Sebastian River Crew building in Fellsmere on Saturday July 13th. "It's excellent exercise, it's low impact and it's really addicting," Snyder said about rowing. Florida Institute of Technology signed a new lease allowing Sebastian River High School to continue rowing training on the C-54 canal for the next 5 years. "This is a joint contract I believe between FIT and Sebastian and they are trying to develop it into a rowing facility and they have been working with the St. John's Water Management District and talking about cutting away the bank and making a launch facility and maybe eventually putting some boathouses in." Snyder said. "We do have Columbia University come down here every year in January and in the spring. They have been coming down here I think for 30 years now and use this facility because it's good water and it's warm."

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Indian River Rowing Club members April Modrzakowski (front), of Vero Beach, and Bob Snyder, of Fellsmere, launch their skull boat from the boat dock along the C-54canal at Sebastian River High School's Sebastian River Crew building in Fellsmere on Saturday July 13th. "It's excellent exercise, it's low impact and it's really addicting," Snyder said about rowing. Florida Institute of Technology signed a new lease allowing Sebastian River High School to continue rowing training on the C-54 canal for the next 5 years. "This is a joint contract I believe between FIT and Sebastian and they are trying to develop it into a rowing facility and they have been working with the St. John's Water Management District and talking about cutting away the bank and making a launch facility and maybe eventually putting some boathouses in." Snyder said. "We do have Columbia University come down here every year in January and in the spring. They have been coming down here I think for 30 years now and use this facility because it's good water and it's warm." Bob Snyder, cq April Modrzakowski, cq PHOTOGRAPHED: Saturday JULY 13, 2013

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